Critical Content and Skills

Content Area: English/Math

Students will know...	Formative Assessment	Students will be able to...	ProductSummativeAssessment	Lesson Notes	Lesson Order
1. make comparisons and draw conclusions based on informational texts (a3)	Prompt and Blog Response	1. predict quality of life based on various employment scenarios	Tumblr with Graph Pic	MASH $1,000,000 game plan http://www.espin.com/mash-game.php http://www.calculateforfree.com/budget.html	3
2. use graphs and charts to represent, organize, interpret, draw inferences, and recognize manipulation from data (data math)	Graphic Organizer	2. make sense of tables, graphs, and charts displaying statistics regarding employment	Graph Results	research drawbacks, controlled experiments g.o. http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createAgraph/	2
3. utilize relevant web programs or software in order to showcase information for multimedial learning	Graphic Organizer	3. design informational media to theoretical dropouts	Webquest	glogster, imovie, comic life etc.. Webquest?	6
4. collect information for research projects including primary and secondary sources (c1) (letter writing b5)	Observation	4. compare occupational risk vs. reward	Blog response	life, research actual salaries and house comparisons life http://www.dreamit-doit.com/content/toolkit/quiz.php	1
5. write a logical argument (e2)	Self-Assessment Stress	5. consider how their daily choices affect their immediate and long term future	Before/After or Dual Destiny poster/picture	stress, how it affects your school work, drama, etc....watch a movie maybe	4
6. organize and present information logically either verbally or written	Discussion Questions	6. reflect on their own thoughts about education	iMovie - Interview	interview and response/reflection, maybe a guided discussion with a parent!!!	5

Formative

Q - Quizzes
WS - Work Sample
SA - Self Assessment
P - Prompts
O - Observation
D - Dialogues

Product - Summative

CL- Comic Life
IM - Imovie
B - Blog
PC - Podcast
W - Wikispace
G - Glogster